Publications

@misc{Yu2019ICDL-EpiRob,

title = {Smart toys and tools for quantification of development of infants and symptoms of Parkinson's patients},

author = {Jing-Chi `Alan' Yu and Chien-Chih `Jack' Wang and Hsi-Chih `Butters' Wu and Shun-Jie Zhang and Torbjörn E. M. Nordling},

url = {https://icdl-epirob2019.org},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-08-01},

booktitle = {9th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, Oslo (Norway)},

publisher = {IEEE},

address = {Oslo},

abstract = {Despite the revolutionary progress in understanding of human and artificial intelligence over the past five years, characterised by Hawkins' the Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence and AlphaGo's victory over Go world champions Lee Sedol and Ke Jie, many questions remain. We are interested in the development of the sensorimotor function in infants and degradation of it in Parkinson's patients. We believe that new insights could be gained through long-term longitudinal studies with daily quantification of the motor skills. Towards this aim we here report on four prototype tools for data collection from infants or Parkinson's patients–a smart drum, a smart bongo, a smart pacifier, and an App for quantifying finger tapping. The smart drum and bongo are commercial toys updated with embedded electronics for internet access and two-way communi- cation with the toys through the chat App Telegram. The smart pacifier is based on a Philips Soothie pacifier updated with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) with Bluetooth for tracking of movement in real-time. The App for quantifying finger tapping is based on the Movement Disorder Society-Sponsored Revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) finger tap test that is widely used to evaluate Bradykinesia (slowness and difficulty to start movement). We report on the design and first field test. These tools show potential for long- term longitudinal data collection in the home of children or Parkinson's patients. We welcome suggestions on how to improve the design and new collaborations applying these tools.},

howpublished = {9th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, Oslo (Norway)},

keywords = {IoT, Smart toys},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}